The outcome of the so-called <italic>Laval</italic> case and related judgments of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has led to a debate about the future of the European social model. Although several analyses have focused on the downside of the judgments, in particular on the risk of ‘wage dumping’, one...

Introduction : the Baltics and the political economy of austerity / Jeffrey Sommers and Charles Woolfson -- 1. Austerity, internal devaluation, and social (in)security in Latvia / Jeffrey Sommers -- 2. Stockholm syndrome in the Baltics: Latvia's neoliberal war against labor and industry /...